What movies have you seen recently?

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The Banker (1989)
The unweighted mean rating is 5 out of 10 for the movie itself.
My opinion, Rifftrax brings it up to an 8.

It is about a very wealthy banker that lures women, and then kills them with a very nice looking crossbow. It looks expensive. So he is a serial killer. A news reporter gets involved with the case and angerly taunts the killer during her broadcast. Her ex-husband (maybe they are just separated), played by Robert Forster, is hunting down the killer, while trying to protect his ambitious, begging to get killed, ex-wife.

I thought Robert Forster, who plays the detective, was good in the role.

Rated R (No one under 18) This is evident in the first five minutes.
Regrettably not a Rifftrax preview, but it is the film's preview. The preview is not rated R.


This is the Rifftrax preview. I personally don't believe the preview is very good. Rifftrax: The Banker

Last night, in preparation for  ! , we re-watched:

The Accountant [2016]
<=>"Do you like puzzles?"



Very definitely YES R E C O M M E N D E D ! YES

The cast and crew list in the IMDb entry for the movie says they had FIVE Autism consultants. All five have excellent credentials for working with Autistic patients...but, I saw no indication that any of them were Autistic (so, no Alex).

Sea Fever.

A fishing boat goes off course, and finds themselves stalked by a sea monster bent on infecting the crew with its eggs.
Very Lovecraftian.

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Q Planes (1939) (aka Clouds Over Europe)

Riffed by Matthew J Elliott and Ian Potter

The Forest Hills.

A homicidal, severely mentally ill man alternately believes he's a werewolf, or that he's being stalked by a werewolf.
Interesting premise, but over acted and almost zero budget. Shelley DuVall's (spelling?) last movie.

Last night I watched:

The Earth Dies Screaming [1964]
<=>"Who... Or What Were They... Who Tried To Wipe All Living Creatures Off The Face Of This Earth?"



If you don't set your expectations too high the movie is perhaps OK.

If you do set your expectations too high then you get what you deserve.

I suppose a cynic could see it as an indirect commentary on current U.S. politics.

The First Omen.

Prequel to the original movie, in which a young, American initiate Nun goes to Rome to work in an orphanage, where she discovers a seemingly autistic girl she is led to believe will give birth to the Antichrist. But is she?
I thought the move was overly hyped, but still, it wasn't half bad.

Swim Fan (2002) on DVD

Last night we watched:

The Accountant² [2025]
<=>"Do you like puzzles?"



This is a sequel to The Accountant [2016]. We both liked both movies...a lot.

In case you have not already learned this, the movies are about a character who is a an accountant...for big league criminals. And he has the accounting skills to go in cold and finish the job quick; and skills not related to accounting that allow him to survive working in the world of major crime.

An indication of how much I liked The Accountant is that we went to the movie theater to see this rather than waiting 'til it was on disk in our collection. (But I fully intend to get it on disk in our collection.) This may have been my first trip to a movie theater since COVID hit.

In case you have not guessed:

<=>VERY RECOMMENDED!

Thank-you for fixing the kitchen utensils!

Exorcist III the director's cut.

I'm watching Move Over Darling on netflips

Oh my cod I'm hooked and I don't even know what it's about

It's got trippy music running through it sometimes

Rogue One.

Prequel to A New Hope. Saw it before, but never gets old.

The Curse Of Frankenstein.

Hammer production of the Shelly book, with Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein, and Christopher Lee as the Monster.
Hammer movies are not often good, but still fun to watch.

I'm in bed watching the other half of the movie from last night

I still don't know what it's about but I know why I like it now; it's because it's noisy like The White Lotus

Must be a sensory thing

It's a bit nuts